A GOOD Samaritan from County Durham has won £4.4m - after a gypsy said she would win the lottery.

Mother-of-six Ann Henry, 50, won £4,493,783 in Saturday’s Lotto draw.

Ann, who lives at Coronation near Bishop Auckland, said the win was predicted by an elderly gipsy woman to whom she gave a sandwich and a cup of tea from her roadside burger bar and diner a fortnight ago.

Mrs Henry, who is married to Gary, 47, said: “It was a really horrible wet day and I was working behind the counter when a little old lady came in absolutely soaking wet through - she was literally dripping on the floor.

“I felt sorry for her and so I gave her a cup of tea and an egg sandwich on the house to warm her up.

“We got chatting and she told me a she was a true gipsy and could predict the future, and I thought ’Oh yeah’ because we get a lot come in here saying that.”

The gypsy then told Ann a great deal about her family.

“It was all true,” Ann said. “Then she said I would win the lottery. She said the win would be soon, and the amount I’d win would begin with a four but she couldn’t tell me how many zeros there’d be.

“I do believe in that kind of stuff but I did not really take much notice of her. Gipsies always say you are going to come into good luck. But amazingly, everything she has said has come true.”

After the gipsy woman finished her cuppa and the sandwich she walked back out into the rain - and vanished.

He husband Gary, 47, bought the ticket at 7.30pm on Saturday - just minutes from the cut-off - from the Spar in Wolsingham.

He is a plasterer and joiner and does building work during the day, while his wife runs the catering business from a converted container on the Roman Way Industrial Estate in Bishop Auckland.

The win means the couple can build their dream home - a luxury bungalow of their own design, and Mr Henry said he planned to have electric windows fitted to the family car - a £12,000 Ford Cadet van.

They plan to give the snack bar to their two sons so they can keep the family business going.